Some of Wayfair’s most innovative ideas have been born out of our internal hackathon, WayfairHacks, which takes place every Summer at our Boston headquarters. This includes our mobile app feature View in Room 3D and Search with Photo, both of which have helped us win a Webby Award in 2018…

At Wayfair, we’re always looking forward and we’re always exploring new and promising technology. Through our partnership with Magic Leap we’ve made some groundbreaking contributions to an emerging computing paradigm – spatial computing. In August, we launched our first experience on Magic Leap One. We created a web experience for…

Today is an important day in history. It’s a milestone in a new era of computing – spatial computing. At Wayfair, we’re ushering in the next-generation in computing in partnership with Magic Leap to go beyond the 2D screen and compute in your space, as a part of your space, and…

I’m Mike Festa and I’m the director of Wayfair Next. We are a team of 25 engineers carrying out R&D with cutting edge technology. We partner with other leading tech companies, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Magic Leap, to bring new experiences to our customers on their emerging platforms….

3D Rendering at Wayfair Wayfair uses 3D modeling in place of traditional photography to generate 2D images for thousands of products. In place of the physical entailments of traditional photography, we create models using Autodesk’s 3DS Max. Models are submitted to a QA tool we built where analysts can communicate…

When we started Wayfair Next – Wayfair’s R&D group that explores next generation experiences, we spoke to a lot of AR and VR application developers who were interested in creating experiences for us. In line with our engineering culture, we wanted to create the experiences ourselves and figure out how…

There are three events in Boston this week where Wayfair engineers will be speaking. On Monday, July 25th, I am on a panel called “What’s Hot in Tech: Providing Next Gen Experiences,” which is part of the MITX E-Commerce Summit 2016, being held all day, from 8:30 to 5, at…